I work for a hospital, and there is really no problem with cellphones interfearing with monitoring equipment. The frequencies are different, and are far enough apart that there is not crossover. However, cordless phones and monitors can have interfearance problems...
We have a no cellphone rule, to keep the noise level down in the halls. We do allow visitors to use their phones in patient rooms, in the cafeteria, and outside the building. And we don't prohibit employee use of cellphones in the building.
There are no federal regulations concerning cellphone use in hospitals-which is one of the few things they don't regulate!
I work for the IT department of a small, rural hospital near New Orleans. Which means people call me about problems with everything from their PC to their fax machine. It may not be part of my job description, but I'll try to help them with their problem if I can...
One day a couple of weeks ago, I had a very frustrated message on my voice mail from the director of our Radiology department. It seems that the phone in one of the diagnostic imaging rooms would ring, and when someone would pick it up it was a recorded message from a telemarketing company.
If it had happened once, she probably would have wrote it off to a mistake. Instead, it kept calling the number. Continuously. For a half hour, by the time she'd left me that message. Now, as you can imagine, having the telephone in a MEDICAL PROCEDURE AREA continuously ringing is a bad thing. Not to mention that line now being tied up so that in an emergency the techs can't call for help.
I ran (literally) down to the department, picked up the phone the next time it rang, and recorded the call. After about two minutes, a real human picked up the line.
Said human began reading her script when I asked her if she knew what phone number this was. I then told her that at that moment, I was standing in an x-ray room, in a hospital, with a patient who was supposed to be getting tested right now but because we kept having to pick up the EMERGENCY PHONE they were just kind of lying there moaning (at which point the director standing next to me made the most pitiful moaning noises, heh, heh) and we would like to GET HER OFF THE TABLE IF YOU PEOPLE HAD NO OBJECTIONS...
There was a moment of silence, then prolific appologies, a promise to stop the calls, more appologies...After leaving her flopping on the end of the hook for a moment, I accepted her appology, took her name and number, then hung up.
When I got engaged to my wife, I wanted to give her a special ring for her engagement. I found out that she had her mother's engagement ring, but three of the diamonds (there were five total) had been removed. Two were in a pair of ear studs she'd had made years ago; the other was in a pendant she'd given a niece.
I had the stones removed from the ear studs and put back in. I then took the diamond out of a ring that my father had worn and had given to me when he passed away and used it to replace the last one. So in a way, I gave her a ring that was part of her family, and mine.
First, see an orthopedist. You may have just a simple back strain, or it could be something more serious (herniated or deteriorating disks, damaged muscles, etc.) You may just need something as simple as physical therapy and a change in how you work.
Sit properly: your feet should be flat on the floor, with your hip bone slightly below your knee level. Use a chair that gives you some support, or place a pillow behind your back.
Get up at least once an hour and stretch a bit, maybe walk around. And take a long walk after work-it helps!
Stretch in the morning and in the evenings; get some simple stretching exercises from your doctor or physical therapist.
If you take Tylenol or Advil daily, you are doing severe damage to your liver and kidneys! Take them only when needed, and not for more than one or two days. See your doctor; they may prescribe something less damaging and more effective. I take Vioxx when I need it (which is usually when I've been having to move lots of equipment around).
Pain kilers are a useful when you do initial damage to help you relax, but they can also mask more damage if you do not change your habits!
Get a very firm mattress, it makes a difference.
Hope this helps...
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I work for a hospital, and there is really no problem with cellphones interfearing with monitoring equipment. The frequencies are different, and are far enough apart that there is not crossover. However, cordless phones and monitors can have interfearance problems...
We have a no cellphone rule, to keep the noise level down in the halls. We do allow visitors to use their phones in patient rooms, in the cafeteria, and outside the building. And we don't prohibit employee use of cellphones in the building.
There are no federal regulations concerning cellphone use in hospitals-which is one of the few things they don't regulate!
I work for the IT department of a small, rural hospital near New Orleans. Which means people call me about problems with everything from their PC to their fax machine. It may not be part of my job description, but I'll try to help them with their problem if I can...
One day a couple of weeks ago, I had a very frustrated message on my voice mail from the director of our Radiology department. It seems that the phone in one of the diagnostic imaging rooms would ring, and when someone would pick it up it was a recorded message from a telemarketing company.
If it had happened once, she probably would have wrote it off to a mistake. Instead, it kept calling the number. Continuously. For a half hour, by the time she'd left me that message. Now, as you can imagine, having the telephone in a MEDICAL PROCEDURE AREA continuously ringing is a bad thing. Not to mention that line now being tied up so that in an emergency the techs can't call for help.
I ran (literally) down to the department, picked up the phone the next time it rang, and recorded the call. After about two minutes, a real human picked up the line.
Said human began reading her script when I asked her if she knew what phone number this was. I then told her that at that moment, I was standing in an x-ray room, in a hospital, with a patient who was supposed to be getting tested right now but because we kept having to pick up the EMERGENCY PHONE they were just kind of lying there moaning (at which point the director standing next to me made the most pitiful moaning noises, heh, heh) and we would like to GET HER OFF THE TABLE IF YOU PEOPLE HAD NO OBJECTIONS...
There was a moment of silence, then prolific appologies, a promise to stop the calls, more appologies...After leaving her flopping on the end of the hook for a moment, I accepted her appology, took her name and number, then hung up.
The phone never rang again.
It's also a great tearjerker, too. Me, my wife and my son were all dewy-eyed at the end the first time we saw it.
Little factoid: the voice of the Iron Giant is Vin Diesel. Really.
"We need more guns, big f*****g guns...That one's not big enough!"
It'a a dumb movie, but fun still. So's "I Come In Peace" with Dolph Lundgren and Brian Benben...
When I got engaged to my wife, I wanted to give her a special ring for her engagement. I found out that she had her mother's engagement ring, but three of the diamonds (there were five total) had been removed. Two were in a pair of ear studs she'd had made years ago; the other was in a pendant she'd given a niece.
I had the stones removed from the ear studs and put back in. I then took the diamond out of a ring that my father had worn and had given to me when he passed away and used it to replace the last one. So in a way, I gave her a ring that was part of her family, and mine.
Maybe not much help to you, but I was happy.
First, see an orthopedist. You may have just a simple back strain, or it could be something more serious (herniated or deteriorating disks, damaged muscles, etc.) You may just need something as simple as physical therapy and a change in how you work. Sit properly: your feet should be flat on the floor, with your hip bone slightly below your knee level. Use a chair that gives you some support, or place a pillow behind your back. Get up at least once an hour and stretch a bit, maybe walk around. And take a long walk after work-it helps! Stretch in the morning and in the evenings; get some simple stretching exercises from your doctor or physical therapist. If you take Tylenol or Advil daily, you are doing severe damage to your liver and kidneys! Take them only when needed, and not for more than one or two days. See your doctor; they may prescribe something less damaging and more effective. I take Vioxx when I need it (which is usually when I've been having to move lots of equipment around). Pain kilers are a useful when you do initial damage to help you relax, but they can also mask more damage if you do not change your habits! Get a very firm mattress, it makes a difference. Hope this helps...